diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
index 48aaeebc4d2..bcc1ec14561 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 { stdenv, buildPackages, hostPlatform, fetchurl, perl, buildLinux, libelf, utillinux, ... } @ args:
 
 buildLinux (args // rec {
-  version = "4.16-rc5";
-  modDirVersion = "4.16.0-rc5";
+  version = "4.16-rc6";
+  modDirVersion = "4.16.0-rc6";
   extraMeta.branch = "4.16";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0yfa0qrs6fwh88xgn252j7nc8q4x5qhf20dlax9hcnza0ai6nk3z";
+    sha256 = "0kwn1qj44pyb404qhwm4qr8mmfni8qfh1raf010d62i48n7pgv0d";
   };
 
   # Should the testing kernels ever be built on Hydra?